When filtering on platform you can either select Windows, Multiple and Office on the Web. You have the option to filter on Security baseline, giving you all the policies that Microsoft recommends in their security baseline, which narrows down the selection to 88 at the moment. This will bring up the available policies, which contains 106 pages with at time of writing a total of 2104 policies. Once provided, you can define the settings under “Configure policies” When creating a policy you must provide the name, optionally a description, provide whether the policy applies to users, or users that access documents anonymously using Office web apps, and select a group to which the policy will be applicable.

The same configuration is available in Microsoft Endpoint Manager under Apps -> Policies for Office Apps.

You can create a policy under Customization -> Policy Management in the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center. With the Office Cloud policy service you can also enforce some policies for Office on the web, either for signed-in or when used anonymously. The only requirement is that for the policies to apply the user needs to be signed-in. The devices you target can either be: Domain Joined, Azure AD joined but also standalone. These policies contain many of the policy options you would normally have when creating a Group Policy Object (GPO) using an Group Policy Administrative Template. With the cloud policy service, you can create policies for Microsoft 365 Apps on devices. Besides these functionalities there are also some features in preview worthwhile to implement in your organization. The Microsoft 365 Apps admin center contains the Office Cloud policy service, the Office customization tool and the Security policy advisor. The Microsoft 365 Apps admin center used to be known as and sometimes still is referred to as the Office Customization tool or Office 365 Client Configuration Service. The apps can be installed on multiple devices, including PCs, Macs, iPads, iPhones, Android tablets, and Android phones. Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise is a subscription that comes with premium apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, Publisher, and Access (Publisher and Access are only available on PC). The Microsoft 365 Apps admin center, available via provides a portal where admins can manage Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise.

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